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Patent misuse laws have something to say about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_misuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_misuse

• Nomentatus 9y ago
  Should, yes - but the law has become a contradictory tangle (thanks in part to strange judicial decisions) and the Senate refuses to revisit it or create coherent law; no doubt because large corporations love the (functional) lack of this law, just as it is. We desperately need patent misuse law back.